25 Jul 2019, 14:52 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase ...
12 Mar 2019, 13:58 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Society dpa / Aachener Nachrichten A court in the western German city of Cologne has started to hear a case by NGO Friends of the Earth (BUND) against the clearing of the embattled Hambach Forest, news agency dpa ...
13 Mar 2019, 14:10 S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Fossil fuels Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 domestic extraction of oil and natural gas has slumped last year, further聽 increasing the country鈥檚 already heavy dependence on imported fossil fuels. ...
16 May 2019, 16:50 Chancellor Angela Merkel has put carbon capture and storage (CCS) back on the table, saying the controversial technology was crucial for Germany to reach climate neutrality by mid-century. CCS has been met with a lot of public mistrust ...
23 Apr 2021, 12:53 S枚ren Amelang Transport Industry Handelsblatt / Financial Times In contrast to a growing number of truckmakers, car parts supplier Bosch bets heavily on hydrogen fuel cell trucks,聽 reports 聽Martin Buchenau in Handelsblatt. The company ...
10 Jul 2023, 13:46 James Jackson Transport Clean Energy Wire To meet the EU鈥檚 goal of shifting millions of passengers to rail in order to reduce transport emissions, the continent鈥檚 high-speed track network should be expanded from 11,000 kilometers today ...
10 Jul 2023, 12:10 James Jackson Adaptation Efficiency Heating Around one in eight German households already use air-condition units, according to a survey by price comparison website Verivox. 鈥淓ighty seven percent of respondents get by without an air ...
11 May 2015
11 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv 聽 dpa 鈥淕abriel wants to convince G7 of Energiewende鈥� At today鈥檚 meeting of G7 energy ministers in Hamburg, the German government hopes to convince other industrialised nations that renewables can ...
14 Oct 2019, 13:23 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Julian Wettengel Renewables Transport Clean Energy Wire [CORRECTION: DB says it seeks 500 gigawatt hours (GWh) of green electricity, not 500 GW.] 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ...
17 Sep 2021, 12:36 Kerstine Appunn Coal Clean Energy Wire / Spiegel Online German energy company RWE is ready to close down its coal-fired power stations earlier than prescribed by the country鈥檚 coal exit law, CEO Markus Krebber told聽 Spiegel Online. RWE ...
The regional state of North Rhine-Westphalia plays a key role in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition and needs to heavily expand its power grid infrastructure despite local opposition, writes Guido M. Hartmann for Welt am Sonntag. The industry-heavy state ...
Several German companies plan to provide customers with transparency on the exact geographical origin of the energy they purchase, writes Ralph Diermann on Spiegel Online. If consumers know their energy comes from the wind turbine next door and not from a ...
11 Apr 2023, 13:24 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Depending on federal state, German private households see differences of over a quarter in electricity consumption and costs, non-profit consultancy co2online found. While households ...
21 Apr 2020, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Cars Green stimulus dpa / Handelsblatt / taz / FAZ / WirtschaftsWoche Several German newspapers have run commentaries critical of a proposed buyer鈥檚 premium on cars. The premium would support the car industry in dealing ...
26 Mar 2019, 13:28 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition and integration of renewable power sources ...
The European offshore wind industry is booming, but lagging grid expansion and a lack of major storage sites could hold back further rapid expansion of the sector, writes Christian Schw盲gerl for Yale Environment 360. The problem of too little progress in ...
Diesel remains an option for about one out of three drivers in Germany, according to a poll by statistics service statista. Petrol cars were preferred by the largest share of respondents, topping the list with 71 percent, followed by hybrids with 41 ...
09 Feb 2018, 00:00 The provisions on climate, energy, and transport in the coalition treaty agreed by Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the Social Democrats (SPD) recognise the big challenges of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition project, but ...
29 Nov 2018, 15:53 Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Fossil fuels Government Dow Jones Newswire The decision to extend the work of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit commission shows that we have reached a point where crucial questions must be answered by the ...
05 May 2023, 13:34 Julian Wettengel Gas Clean Energy Wire Fossil gas use by private households, industry and power stations in Germany fell 23 percent in the second half of 2022, compared to the same period in the previous year, according to a report by ...
26 Sep 2023, 13:04 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Company climate claims Clean Energy Wire Environmental NGO Greenpeace Germany has hailed a fine for the fund management company DWS in the U.S. as a 鈥渟uccess鈥� in the fight against greenwashing in the ...
On the sidelines of its surprising and far-reaching deal with competitor E.ON, German utility RWE is mulling another major transaction- the purchase of utility EnBW's coal and gas plants, J眉rgen Flauger writes for Handelsblatt. RWE CEO Rolf Martin ...
In 2018, a total of 1,908 German businesses at 2,421 locations will be largely exempt from having to pay the country鈥檚 renewables levy (EEG surcharge) on electricity, writes the Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control (Bafa), which is in ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 grand coalition government is considering ways to enable municipalities located near wind farms to share in the profits of the turbines, reports Daniel Wetzel in Welt am Sonntag. The economy ministry has invited experts to discuss several ...
21 Feb 2020, 14:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Technology Die Welt Leading German aircraft engine manufacturer MTU Aero Engines does not expect electric aviation with large commercial airplanes to become reality anytime soon, Gerhard Hegmann writes for ...
24 Mar 2020, 14:48 Rachel Waldholz Climate & CO2 Industry Handelsblatt / Der Spiegel Carbon emissions and air pollution are expected to decline in Germany and worldwide because of the coronavirus pandemic, but experts warn the decrease could be ...
More than a dozen villages are to be demolished and thousands of families relocated to make way for the expansion of Garzweiler opencast lignite mine, Stefanie Glinski reports for the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Located in the German federal state of ...
22 Dec 2016, 00:00 2017 will be a year filled with a multitude of seminal events for Germany's energy and climate policy. Apart from presiding over the next G20 summit, Germany will be the venue for the UN's COP23 and see legal reforms of ...
23 Dec 2016, 00:00 Germany is heading into a year filled with international top-events and elections that will determine the future course of the country鈥檚 Energiewende project. The uncertainties about the new US administration and the exact details of ...
01 Oct 2015
01 Oct 2015, 00:00 Clean Energy Wire 91tv German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW)/Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research (ZSW) 鈥淲ind power generation 2015 already exceeds last year鈥檚 level鈥� Thanks to strong winds and the addition ...
21 Jun 2023, 13:19 S枚ren Amelang Coal Society Clean Energy Wire A broad coalition of climate activist groups have said they will stage a protest at an opencast lignite mine in East Germany and call for a rapid end to coal this Sunday (25 June). 鈥淚t is ...
The federal government鈥檚 鈥渃limate rhetoric鈥� runs contrary to recent plans and regulatory reforms, writes Joachim Wille in an opinion piece for Frankfurter Rundschau. Cabinet聽 decided 聽on a draft law to ratify the Paris Climate Agreement and Chancellor ...
China is giving automakers an extra year to prepare for phasing out fossil-fuel powered vehicles in the world鈥檚 largest auto market, reports Bloomberg. Carmakers will need to fulfil e-car quotas from 2019, one year later than originally planned, or face ...
Power to hydrogen as a way to store excess electricity is currently too expensive, many modern gas-consuming devices could only deal with a small share of hydrogen in their fuel, and hydrogen has significantly less energy content per cubic metre than, for ...
The government鈥檚 Climate Protection Report 2017 will confirm that Germany is set to miss its 2020 national climate target by a wide margin. A draft, seen by the Clean Energy Wire, says that the country will only reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 32 ...
Leading experts commissioned by the German economy ministry (BMWi) say Germany will probably miss key targets of the Energiewende, endangering the entire projects's credibility.鈥澛營n their advisory opinion on the BMWi鈥檚 fifth Energiewende Monitoring ...
17 Sep 2018, 10:30 A report about a proposal by one of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal commission co-heads for a coal exit by 2038 has caused irritation. Some commission members were quick to reject the report and warned that the commission's work was in peril should ...
25 Apr 2019, 13:04 Expert Green Party B眉ndnis 90/ Die Gr眉nen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 S眉ddeutsche Zeitung As new warnings of drought show that "the climate crisis is intensifying", the German ...
18 Mar 2019, 14:30 In the days after tens of thousands of students protested across Germany for more action on climate change, reactions poured in from across the political spectrum. Some conservative politicians argue students should not miss school, and ...
The EU Commission鈥檚 鈥渨inter package鈥� on energy policy has been criticised by politicians and environmental organisations, but it does contain 鈥渟ome positive surprises,鈥� writes Verena Kern for klimaretter.info, based on an assessment by think tank Agora ...
E.ON spin-off Uniper is looking at 鈥渃onsiderable share-price fluctuations鈥� in the first few weeks after its stock market debut in mid-September, according to company sources, writes the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Analysts expected the stock market ...
07 Mar 2023, 12:26 Carolina Kyllmann Utilities Clean Energy Wire Municipal utilities are at the forefront of implementing the energy transition and should 鈥渋nvest in the green future of their business,鈥� 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 chancellor Olaf Scholz said at the annual ...
16 Dec 2019, 12:41 Expert Agora Verkehrswende Think tank on energy transition in the transport sector Transport Cars Freight Julian Wettengel Cars Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire Battery electric cars are more climate-friendly over their full lifecycle than ...
03 Apr 2023, 13:33 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen International Clean Energy Wire Germany is exploring ways to expand cooperation with Australia on hydrogen and raw materials in a bid to diversify its import partners and reduce dependencies. Together with a ...
02 Sep 2021, 13:44 Julian Wettengel Energiewende Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire While the German energy transition made considerable progress in 2020, this could be short-lived as it was largely due to the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, consultancy ...
11 Sep 2019, 13:53 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Wind Clean Energy Wire The German coal exit can only be carried out safely if the country raises its current offshore wind power expansion plans, a meta-study commissioned by offshore industry association BWO has ...
Three studies highlight the additional need for skilled labour to implement the energy transition in the German buildings sector. The Institute for Applied Ecology (脰ko-Institut) has published a policy paper highlighting the need for an additional 100,000 ...
18 Aug 2020, 14:12 Climate & CO2 Rheinische Post / RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland / Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten Persistent drought has led 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Environment Minister Svenja Schulze to propose a 鈥渘ational water strategy鈥�, setting out new ...
01 Sep 2021, 13:34 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Edgar Meza Grid Renewables Clean Energy Wire Citing the ...
Countries around the world have added record volumes of new renewable power capacities at cheaper prices, according to a joint report by the Frankfurt School 鈥� UNEP Collaborating Centre and Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Expenditures for new renewables ...
25 Apr 2023, 13:26 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 district heating networks should be planned more efficiently in the long term and operators need better financial incentives to convert the infrastructure, so that the technology can ...
02 Oct 2015
02 Oct 2015, 00:00 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 鈥淪upport for nuclear plant operators鈥� The home region of battered utilities RWE and E.ON has suggested the companies should receive state aid if their provisions for nuclear decommissioning prove too small ...
The Federation of German Industries (BDI) called the government's failure to reach a compromise on the GEG, a bill that would have modernised energy efficiency standards for German buildings, a 鈥渨aste of precious time for consumers and investors.鈥� In ...
20 Feb 2019, 13:22 S枚ren Amelang Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Germany must urgently address a whole range of difficult choices to get the country鈥檚 energy transition on track for 2050 targets by triggering rapid investments in low ...
Germany can take coal plants with a combined capacity of seven gigawatts off grid- and might even improve the security of the power supply by doing so, according to an unofficial document by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy & energy ministry (BMWi) and the Federal ...
Renewables produced 38 percent of the electricity used in Germany between January and September 2018, an increase of three percentage points over a year earlier, according to utility association BDEW. In January, April and May, renewables' share even ...
08 Aug 2019, 13:51 S枚ren Amelang Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Handelsblatt An increasing number of MPs from Germany's governing parties are in favour of abandoning the target of a balanced budget in order to finance the fight against climate ...
28 Sep 2015
28 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv AFP 鈥淢ore companies are making their peace with the energy transition鈥� An increasing number of companies in Germany are supporting the country鈥檚 move to replace conventional energy sources with ...
09 Sep 2019, 13:40 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Der Tagesspiegel The German government coalition "cannot continue" if it is not prepared to clarify how Germany will achieve its climate targets by 2030, German environment minister Svenja ...
03 Feb 2016
03 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Federal Environment Agency 鈥淕erman greenhouse gas emissions fall considerably in 2014鈥� New data shows that 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 greenhouse gas emissions fell to 901.9 million tonnes of聽CO2聽equivalents in 2014 ...
The Carbon brief published an interactive map on power generating capacity in Germany as well as a series of charts that show how the coal problem reveals the challenge of decarbonising heat, transport and industry in the country. The map and an ...
03 Mar 2016
03 Mar 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang McKinsey 鈥淓nergiewende Index Germany 2020 鈥� Tour de Force nuclear exit鈥� According to consultancy McKinsey, the government risks missing most of its 2020 energy transition targets. 鈥淎 majority of indicators are pointing ...
German transport and environmental association Verkehrsclub Deutschland (VDC), which promotes sustainable mobility, on Tuesday refused to publish its annual top ten list of most environmentally friendly car models due to the ongoing diesel emissions ...
Acting German Chancellor and Christian Democrat (CDU) Angela Merkel and the leaders of her future coalition government partners the Christian Social Union (CSU) and Social Democratic Party (SPD) have signed the coalition treaty for the coming legislative ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 G20 presidency is 鈥渁n important opportunity for other major powers to resist backsliding鈥� on climate change, especially in view of uncertainty over the new US president Donald Trump's energy policy, writes Climate Home. The German ...
The dispute about the decision to split the German-Austrian common power price zone shows the difficulties of designing a common EU energy market in light of missing grid infrastructure, writes Paul Hodgson for EurActiv. Trans-border power trade, as well ...
16 Jan 2019, 14:00 Kerstine Appunn Coal Fossil fuels Clean Energy Wire While the German economy as a whole would hardly suffer from phasing out lignite, coal regions in the Rhineland, central Germany and especially Lusatia in the east of Germany, are ...
14 Jan 2019, 13:32 Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate & CO2 Handelsblatt 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 planned climate action law must not only prescribe CO鈧� emissions reduction, but secure social acceptance, technical feasibility and 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ...
08 Nov 2021, 17:30 With the goal to "keep 1.5掳 within reach", many see this year's COP26 in Glasgow as the most important UN climate change conference since the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement. Industrialised countries and large emitters are ...
06 Jun 2023, 12:59 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Resources & Recycling dpa / Der Stern The lack of mineral resources could become a challenge for the planned ramp-up of hydrogen industry in Germany, Europe and worldwide, news agency dpa writes in an聽 ...
24 Nov 2017, 00:00 For the first time in its post-war history, Germany struggles to form a stable government coalition two months after voters cast their ballot in September's elections. The so-called Jamaica coalition talks' collapse plunges ...
06 Oct 2023, 12:16 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Finance Clean Energy Wire Twenty-five countries including Germany, France and Japan have pledged a total of 9.3 billion U.S. dollars to support climate action in developing countries from 2024 to 2027 ...
Wind turbines in the German state of Bavaria may be constructed closer to settlements than allowed by current regulation (鈥� 10-H rule 鈥�), if the local population agrees, writes state energy minister Ilse Aigner in a press release. The rule, enacted in ...
The electric car might not be the clean alternative to combustion engines many believe it to be, because of environmental damage from batteries and the extraction of raw materials such as cobalt or lithium, Henrik B枚hme argues in an opinion piece on ...
Landowners should receive 鈥渂etter compensation鈥� if power transmission lines are built on their premises, the German Farmers' Association (DBV) said in a press release. They聽should be eligible for recurring compensation payments instead of receiving a ...
07 Sep 2023, 13:26 S枚ren Amelang Adaptation Clean Energy Wire Rising temperatures due to climate change can pose a serious threat to people taking medication, German health authorities have warned. The risk that many medicines have of interacting with ...
10 Oct 2016
The total cost of the German energy transition in the electricity sector until 2025 will amount to more than 520 billion euros, according to a study commissioned by industry lobby group Initiative New Social Market Economy (INSM). The largest part of the ...
08 Jan 2018, 00:00 The negotiation partners in Germany's ongoing coalition talks have agreed to postpone the country's 2020 emissions reduction target until "the early 2020s". Party negotiators also agreed on introducing a climate ...
18 Feb 2021, 14:13 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Cars ...
Power generating units with a total capacity of about 13,658 megawatt (MW) are scheduled for closure in Germany, but only about 7,667 MW have already been shut down, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has said in a press release. The remainder of nearly ...
09 Nov 2021, 18:30 After a week of political announcements, ministers this week join their negotiators to hash out the nitty-gritty of the Paris Agreement rulebook and eyes are on a possible solution for carbon markets under Article 6. 91tv tracks the ...
03 May 2023, 12:02 Julian Wettengel Industry Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Reuters / Handelsblatt / Merkur German chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) and finance minister Christian Lindner (FDP) have criticised plans by the economy ministry to subsidise ...
17 Jan 2019, 14:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Cost & Prices Die Welt 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy-intensive industries have called for an energy transition cost 鈥渟uper cap鈥� for their businesses, Daniel Wetzel reports for newspaper Die Welt. Lobby ...
The high costs of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition are damaging German industry's competitiveness聽with negative impacts on the clothing and textile sector, says Bodo B枚lzle, president of textile industry association S眉dwesttextil, according to an article ...
04 Apr 2023, 13:56 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Despite an extremely mild winter, households in Germany experienced the highest heating costs ever according to an analysis by price comparison website Verivox based on data from the German ...
15 Jun 2023, 12:36 Jessica Bateman Business & Jobs Manager Magazin Germany needs to recruit an additional 100,000 workers to meet the country鈥檚 solar expansion targets, according to the German Solar Industry Association (BSW). Speaking at industry ...
Grid congestion at the Austrian border that led to last week鈥檚 decision by the German government to prepare the split of the common power price zone was a 鈥渉omemade problem鈥�, writes Christian Geinitz in an opinion piece for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. ...
10 Aug 2015
10 Aug 2015, 00:00 Germany's second-largest utility announces it is consolidating its operations under one roof and shaking up its management structure. Spinning off the conventional power business was kept as an option but not planned, CEO Peter ...
10 Aug 2020, 14:03 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society dpa / n-tv / Tageszeitung An intense heat wave and lack of rain is causing severe water shortages in German municipalities that could foreshadow global warming's impact on the country as ...
06 Jul 2023, 13:17 Carolina Kyllmann Transport Clean Energy Wire / Zeit Online Car registrations in Germany have risen by 13 percent in the first half of 2023- compared to the same period last year- with the number of newly registered electric vehicles ...
26 Sep 2023, 12:30 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum f眉r Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology Edgar Meza Transport Hydrogen Die Welt / Clean Energy Wire Aviation industry representatives and political leaders in Germany have vowed ...
The German federal government鈥檚 decision to unilaterally terminate the contract on German-Austrian power market could be imminent, German government sources told weekly magazine Der Spiegel. 鈥淔ederal economy minister Sigmar Gabriel (SPD) urged Vienna to ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 car industry has increased its share of gross value added in the country between 2005 and 2015 to 4.5 percent, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) says in a press release. Contrary to most European countries, the industry鈥檚 importance has ...
The conflict over coal-mining expansion in the Hambach Forest, where police have started evicting anti-coal activists, is becoming an issue that could threaten the stability of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit commission, news website Spiegel Online writes. Commission ...
16 Feb 2022, 12:05 Paul Gordon Cost & Prices Zeit / AFP The German government coalition has agreed on key points to create a tiered model for the distribution of CO鈧� costs for heating between tenants and landlords, reports Zeit. The price breakdown ...
31 May 2023, 13:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Policy dpa / n-tv The German government coalition has agreed on a draft law for reforming municipal heating regulation as part of a wider package to decarbonise the country鈥檚 heating sector, news agency dpa ...
18 Dec 2018, 13:21 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Cars Politics Handelsblatt German Chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU party is exploring options to rein in ...
16 May 2019, 08:45 Germany is set to widely miss its greenhouse gas reduction targets for 2020 and 2030 unless significant steps such as the proposed coal exit are taken. The environment ministry鈥檚 new emissions forecast shows that the country must ...
The Social Democrats (SPD) achieved a decisive victory in Sunday's Lower Saxony state election, but didn't garner enough votes to continue their government coalition with the Green Party, Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ) reports. With a ...
25 Feb 2019, 13:54 Rachel Waldholz Coal International Security Bloomberg A senior German government official says the country may have to rely on electricity imports from neighbouring countries to avoid blackouts as it simultaneously phases out both coal ...
20 Feb 2019, 13:24 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate & CO2 Tagesspiegel Background If Germany doesn鈥檛 fulfil its greenhouse gas emission reduction obligations under the EU effort sharing, it could end up having to pay between 13.5 and 41 ...
08 Oct 2020, 14:19 Expert Daimler AG Transport Cars Business & Jobs S枚ren Amelang Cars Automobilwoche / dpa /Handelsblatt The Daimler works council has warned the carmaker against focusing solely on electric mobility. "Electric mobility is ...
Representatives from different ministries of the French and German governments met in Paris for the first meeting of the inter-ministerial High Level Working Group on climate change, the so-called 鈥淢eseberg Climate Working Group鈥�, the environment ministry ...
05 Jun 2020, 13:06 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Edgar Meza Cars Clean Energy Wire [CORRECTION: Greenpeace corrected its press release clarifying that currently available plug-in hybrids in Germany have the average ...
Emissions in Germany have increased for two consecutive years due to the decommissioning of the country鈥檚 nuclear power plants, pro-nuclear organisation Environmental Progress writes. 鈥淕erman emissions would have declined had it not closed a nuclear plant ...
29 Mar 2023, 13:19 Sven Egenter International Security Increasing competition and new global power structures caused by the shift to climate-neutral industries and energy sources risk splitting the world anew into conflictive spheres, German economy and ...
17 Jan 2017, 00:00 2017 will be a year filled with a multitude of seminal events for Germany's energy and climate policy. Apart from presiding over the next G20 summit, Germany will be the venue for the UN's COP23 and see legal reforms of ...
20 Aug 2020, 13:39 Edgar Meza Clean Energy Wire 91tv Coal Tagespiegel Background 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit is threatening the country鈥檚 supply of gypsum, Steven Hanke reports in Tagesspiegel Background. More than half of the gypsum used in Germany is derived ...
01 Mar 2023, 13:07 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation EU Handelsblatt / Euractiv / Clean Energy Wire A severe winter drought in France is causing worries that the country鈥檚 energy production could be impacted throughout the year, compounding an already tense ...
04 Dec 2018, 15:34 Federal Association of Offshore Wind Farm Operators The association of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 offshore wind farm operators (BWO) has welcomed a government proposal to increase the country鈥檚 offshore wind power capacity from 15 to 20 gigawatt (GW) by ...
09 Jul 2019, 12:42 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Expert FDP- Free Democratic ...
21 Mar 2023, 13:46 Edgar Meza Industry EU Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Institute for Economic Research (ifo) has urged the European Union to refrain from further debt-financed subsidies as a response to the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). "The EU ...
Due to objections by Germany's National Meteorological Service (DWD), 219 wind power turbines with a total capacity of 649 megawatts could not be built in 2015 because of the risk of interference with the weather service鈥檚 data collection, says the ...
Due to the low number of applications for e-car buyer鈥檚 premium, the German federal government should rededicate unused funds to expanding the country鈥檚 charging infrastructure, Andreas Obersteller, head of the Federal Office for Economic Affairs and ...
10 Aug 2016
A study by Agora Energiewende* found that rules regulating electricity markets in the countries of Central Western Europe vary widely from each other, making it difficult for the nations to optimally use the flexibility of the electricity system. ...
16 Oct 2020, 13:23 Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 EU Clean Energy Wire The European Union's heads of state and government have agreed to decide on a more ambitious 2030 greenhouse gas reduction target at the ...
06 Jan 2021, 13:21 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Charlotte Nijhuis Cars Wirtschaftswoche Volkswagen subsidiary Audi has overtaken Tesla as the top-selling electric car brand in Norway, according to a report in Wirtschaftswoche. In 2020, more ...
27 Jul 2021, 13:36 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Gas Handelsblatt Germany needs gas-fired ...
22 Mar 2019, 13:27 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Government Rheinische Post 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new climate cabinet is proof that policymakers can look ahead only as far ahead as the next election, and are unable to make decisions that might cause upset, ...
The operation of thousands of wind turbines could become economically unviable once the first support period for renewable energy in Germany runs out in 2020, Michael Bauchm眉ller writes in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. If the operators鈥� sales revenue in open ...
14 Nov 2018, 14:13 A new government report detailing 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 failure to cut emissions increases pressure on the country鈥檚 coal commission to agree on a speedy phase-out plan. Work in the coal commission enters a critical stage for climate protection ...
02 Jan 2017, 00:00 2017 will be a year filled with a multitude of seminal events for Germany's energy and climate policy. Apart from presiding over the next G20 summit, Germany will be the venue for the UN's COP23 and see legal reforms of ...
05 Mar 2019, 13:44 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Gas Handelsblatt The planned exit from coal-fired power generation in Germany may require large-scale construction of gas-fired power plants, but the necessary investments in the technology still remain wanting, ...
15 Aug 2019, 12:13 Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen Technology Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany needs a market introduction strategy for green fuels based on hydrogen, Carsten Rolle, climate and energy policy head at the Federation of German Industries ...
With the German parliament鈥檚 decision to transfer responsibility for the country鈥檚 nuclear waste storage to the state, arguably the most expensive project in the history of German energy policy, has been legally phased-out with a broad political consensus ...
04 Jun 2015
04 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv BDI / IG BCE Industry Association joins forces with mining union to combat coal levy Leading German industry association BDI has thrown its weight behind mining union IG BCE 鈥檚 efforts to thwart ...
09 Mar 2023, 11:53 Julian Wettengel Gas Renewables Energiewende Clean Energy Wire Germany will use auctions to ensure new gas power plants are built, which the government sees as necessary to secure supply at times when renewable energy does not deliver ...
19 Sep 2023, 13:30 Edgar Meza Heating Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 heat pump industry has called for reductions in electricity prices in order to achieve the country鈥檚 expansion target of installing 500,000 units a year from 2024. In a statement, the ...
German economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier and Maro拧 艩ef膷ovi膷, vice President of the EU Commission and head of the "Energy Union" project, say Europe has to develop joint battery production capacities to ensure the continent retains its ...
More than three million e-cars are registered worldwide, with 1.2 million in China, followed by 750,000 in the United States. Germany ranks eighth with 93,000 registered e-cars, says the Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Wuerttemberg ...
24 Sep 2017, 00:00 Despite heavy losses in Germany's parliamentary elections, Angela Merkel is poised to stay chancellor for another four years. The voters鈥� decision sets her conservative CDU/CSU party alliance on course for coalition talks with the ...
23 Jul 2021, 13:24 Expert Fridays for Future Germany Climate activism group Climate & CO2 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire, Welt Activists are protesting for better climate protection measures after ...
03 Jun 2019, 14:10 S枚ren Amelang Nuclear phase-out Cars Clean Energy Wire VW CEO Herbert Diess has drawn heavy criticism for suggesting that Germany should first exit coal instead of nuclear power in order to protect the climate. Environment state ...
05 Mar 2020, 14:32 Rachel Waldholz Renewables Solar pv magazine The German photovoltaic (PV) system manufacturer Solarwatt plans to launch a new production line in Dresden, and the company believes solar panel production in Europe can be competitive with ...
Today, all a household needs to secure an autonomous power supply is a roof-top solar panel, internet access and a cupboard-sized battery in the basement, writes Inge Kloepfer in weekly Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. By offering just that, ...
17 May 2021, 12:31 Edgar Meza Transport Elections & Politics Tagesspiegel As 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 election year campaigning heats up, political leaders hoping to succeed chancellor Angela Merkel are taking aim at cheap flights and domestic air travel as they ...
12 Mar 2019, 13:48 Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Renewables Solar Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind Clean Energy Wire Thanks to strong winds, electricity production in Germany achieved a new record share of nearly 65 ...
07 Feb 2019, 13:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Focus Online Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has called the proposed 2038 deadline for ending coal-fired power production in Germany 鈥渁bsurd.鈥� The 16-year-old ...
10 Mar 2020, 13:11 Rachel Waldholz Transport Der Spiegel The steep drop in air travel caused by the coronavirus outbreak is reducing carbon emissions in the short-term, but the economic hit could undermine the aviation industry鈥檚 commitment to longer term ...
Germany enjoys one of the highest levels of power supply security in the world, Lausitzer Rundschau reports, citing information provided by the German government in response to an enquiry by the Green Party. The country鈥檚 already high level of power ...
When RWE and E.ON both split their their fossil fuel-based and their new energy technology businesses into separate companties, it was evidence that the German Energiewende 鈥渉as dealt a huge jolt to the business model of what were once two of Europe鈥檚 ...
14 Apr 2023, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Efficiency Clean Energy Wire Most homeowners in Germany support climate-friendly modernisation of heating systems, according a survey by non-profit consultancy co2online. Nearly 80 percent said it is ...
20 Mar 2023, 12:15 Julian Wettengel Resources & Recycling Security Clean Energy Wire Japan and Germany have agreed stronger cooperation to ensure sufficient supply of raw materials in areas critical to transforming their economies, such as ...
Many Central and Eastern European countries have reacted extremely sceptical to 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition, but they have been proven wrong, writes Jan Ondrich in a blog post on energytransition.de. 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 grid remains one of the most stable in Europe ...
Germany is a reluctant global leader but persistently works on providing assistance to developing countries, not least in the energy sector, Catherine Cheney writes on international development website聽 devex.com. Effective development assistance must be ...
16 Jul 2021, 13:04 Edgar Meza Clean Energy Wire 91tv International Clean Energy Wire Germany and the U.S. have entered a partnership aimed at strengthening climate ambition and deepening the countries鈥� collaboration on policies and sustainable ...
Japan and Great Britain did not sign a joint statement with France, Germany and Italy in reaction to the US decision to leave the Paris Agreement, and Canada鈥檚 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau proposed to strike the references to the Paris Agreement from the ...
20 Mar 2019, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Elections & Politics dpa / Rheinische Post The planned German 鈥� climate cabinet 鈥� that aims to improve coordination among climate-relevant ministries to put the country on track to meet its ...
05 Feb 2015
05 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Vattenfall / Reuters Vattenfall Annual report: Focus on renewables in Germany Swedish utility Vattenfall, who operates power stations, mines and other energy businesses across Europe, highlights in ...
18 Mar 2019, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind Clean Energy Wire A string of windy weeks has led to a very high share of nearly two-thirds renewables in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power production mix since the beginning of March. Average net electricity production ...
05 Aug 2022, 11:34 With natural gas deliveries from Russia dwindling, the German government is preparing for a winter without sufficient supplies of the fossil fuel it relies on heavily for heating homes. As well as increasing the import of liquified gas ...
29 Jan 2019, 13:49 Expert ifo- Institute for Economic Research Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung (ifo) Climate & CO2 Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Coal Elections & Politics ...
07 Feb 2023, 13:05 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Clean Energy Wire / Tagesspiegel Background / ntv The 鈥榥eglected topic鈥� of building renovations and an absence of energy consumption optimisation have cost Germany an "unnecessary" 50 billion euros ...
07 Jun 2015, 00:00 Chancellor Angela Merkel has voiced optimism that Germany can find a way to cut emissions from coal-fired power plants. Merkel, who seeks to convince other leaders of major industrialised countries to commit to ambitious climate action ...
31 Jul 2017, 00:00 Environment minister Barbara Hendricks has been at the helm of Germany's climate protection efforts for the past four years. During her tenure, the country has contributed substantially to brokering the Paris Agreement and put ...
01 Sep 2023, 12:03 Julian Wettengel Cars Cost & Prices WirtschaftsWoche / Clean Energy Wire The end of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 buyer鈥檚 premium for electric company cars will hurt the market and place an extra burden on medium-sized businesses, the German ...
01 Jun 2023, 12:21 Julian Wettengel International Clean Energy Wire Germany, Denmark, the UK and the EU will provide 100 million euros for climate change mitigation projects in developing countries, economy minister Robert Habeck said at the Global NDC ...
18 Mar 2019, 14:07 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage International Clean Energy Wire The governments of Poland and Germany have agreed on pooling their efforts to establish an independent battery production in Europe. At the bilateral German-Polish economy forum ...
The prospect of a new government coalition in Germany that would include the Green Party resulted in a drop in utility RWE鈥檚 share price of more than five percent on Monday, making the energy company that operates many coal-fired power plants the biggest ...
The fees that consumers pay for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 electricity grid are too high and unfairly distributed across the country's regions, writes Malte Kreutzfeldt in an opinion piece in tageszeitung (taz). He calls for a nationwide harmonisation of the ...
04 Aug 2020, 14:50 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Edgar Meza Coal Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) ...
01 Sep 2015
01 Sep 2015, 00:00 Institute of Renewable Energy Industry (IWR) 鈥淎dditions of new solar arrays speeds up in July 鈥� Total capacity exceeds threshold of 39,000 MW鈥� The addition of new PV-systems has increased significantly in July compared to June, but not ...
10 Apr 2019, 13:27 S枚ren Amelang Wind Reuters A German court approved an application for insolvency from wind turbine manufacturer Senvion, which has more than a billion euros of debt,聽 report Alexander H眉bner and Michelle Martin for Reuters. Senvion has ...
13 Apr 2015
13 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv neue energie 鈥�230,000 new jobs 鈥� if the Energiewende succeeds鈥� A new and as yet unpublished study by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy concludes that renewables are a boon for ...
08 Dec 2021, 14:36 Jessica Bateman Elections & Politics Government S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new foreign minister, Green Party co-leader Annalena Baerbock, will head up international climate policy for the first time in the ministry鈥檚 history, ...
18 Feb 2019, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate & CO2 Efficiency Clean Energy Wire / dpa / Handelsblatt The German government has put back plans to set up a commission tasked with ne gotiating possible measures for reducing ...
20 Jan 2021, 13:29 Expert BMEL- Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture (until 2025) Agriculture Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Agriculture EU Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 agriculture ministry is pushing for a carbon adjustment mechanism at EU ...
The CDU鈥檚 forging of new state government coalitions in Schleswig-Holstein (CDU, Green Party, FDP) and North Rhine-Westphalia (CDU, FDP) opens up options for Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservatives in the September federal elections, writes Daniel ...
Tesla CEO Elon Musk defended the company鈥檚 autopilot system after the German Federal Motor Transport Authority said it would not have approved the beta-phase of Tesla's autopilot, according to manager magazin. There was a 鈥渕isunderstanding of what & ...
Digital meter readers are gradually becoming mandatory in German households but many residents are unsure how they benefit from the technology, or聽 how safely it treats their power consumption data, Dagmar Fischbach writes for Rheinische Post. 鈥淪mart ...
24 Jul 2020, 14:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Solar Clean Energy Wire Customs investigators in Bavaria have revealed the smuggling of solar modules from China sold at dumping prices in Germany worth at least 33 million euros. The customs office said it ...
29 Sep 2016, 00:00 One year after the Dieselgate scandal hit the industry, German carmakers VW and Daimler unveiled their first models developed exclusively for an electric motor at the Paris Car Show on Thursday. Many industry experts say the move is key ...
15 Mar 2023, 13:22 A slight reduction of German greenhouse gas emissions last year is not enough to put the country on track to reaching its 2030 climate target. The country would have to triple the annual reduction from 2 percent in 2022 to 6 percent ...
01 Jul 2021, 12:38 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Edgar Meza Electricity Industry Clean Energy Wire As ...
22 Jun 2020, 12:39 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Edgar Meza Cars Der Spiegel Local electricity monopolies have so far prevented ...
20 Jul 2020, 14:08 Expert Federal Motor Transport Authority Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt Cars Transport Cars Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung New vehicles in Germany are getting greener: average CO2 emissions of cars registered in the first half of 2020 were 4.4 ...
31 Jan 2019, 14:15 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund f眉r Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Coal Clean Energy Wire ...
06 Mar 2023, 13:36 Julian Wettengel Electricity market Energiewende Security Clean Energy Wire Germany will have to build new gas-fired power plants and introduce additional measures to avoid electricity supply shortages during peak demand periods as the ...
25 Apr 2023, 13:43 Julian Wettengel Gas Clean Energy Wire Germany must avoid building too many new gas power plants in the country鈥檚 efforts to secure electricity supply at times of little wind or sunshine, said renewables association BEE during an online ...
The German government has the 鈥渁lmost unique opportunity鈥� to make German car manufacturers 鈥渇inally take decisions鈥� to find a solution for the diesel emissions scandal, writes Peter Fahrenholz in an opinion piece in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. The auto industry ...
The future of coal-fired power generation is going to be one of the coalition talks鈥� most delicate matters, Michael Bauchm眉ller says in an article for S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. 鈥淎ll other energy policy issues pale in comparison to the coal question,鈥� he writes ...
22 Jan 2019, 13:15 The German government is playing down US threats against companies involved in the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project connecting Germany to Russia. Energy minister Peter Altmaier said the government was 鈥渘ot impressed鈥� by ...
16 Aug 2022, 13:09 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund f眉r Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society Hamburger Abendblatt / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung / Rheinische Post German rivers are suffering ...
The rising share of renewable electricity in Germany and France makes energy experts believe that electricity storage will become crucial in the near to medium term, write Nikolas W枚lfing from the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mark ...
15 Sep 2023, 11:38 Aniket Narawad Climate & CO2 Society Only 47 percent of people in Germany agree that high-income countries should take the lead on compensating low-income countries for climate change-led economic losses, one of the lowest support ...
11 Feb 2019, 14:07 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Coal Climate & CO2 Nuclear phase-out Germany shutting down the last of its nuclear power plants by 2022 could force the country to use more coal power- temporarily pushing up emissions- even ...
The agricultural sector is not suitable for full inclusion in the European Union's Emissions Trading System (ETS), experts commissioned by the German Ministry for Food and Agriculture said during a presentation of a ministry report on climate ...
Germany will initiate a domestic battery cell production in the framework of the federal government鈥檚 upcoming industrial strategy, said economy minister Peter Altmaier at a press conference after a meeting with Maros Sefcovic, the European Commission ...
10 Mar 2023, 12:18 Julian Wettengel Heating Table.Media / Clean Energy Wire / Spiegel The German government coalition is edging closer to a compromise in the dispute about a de facto ban on new fossil fuel heating systems from next year, Table.Media ...
01 Sep 2023, 12:07 Chinsisi Moyo Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Extreme weather events such as heatwaves and river floods are known to hit the economy- but the damages could be significantly worse if economic output is already low, ...
25 Jun 2021, 13:45 Edgar Meza Technology Business Insider Five green sector startups have joined forces to lobby for an 鈥�energy transition premium鈥� of 500 euros per household for smart home devices, Business Insider鈥檚 startup news site Gr眉nderszene ...
07 Apr 2020, 13:16 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Julian Wettengel Cars Handelsblatt German multinational engineering company and automotive equipment supplier Bosch is targeting the established car industry with its own modular e-vehicle platform, ...
31 May 2023, 13:22 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung About four million fossil heating systems in Germany will reach their legal runtime limit of 30 years in 2024, newspaper Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung聽 reported 聽based on a ...
15 Feb 2023, 12:57 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire Germany and Belgium agreed to link their hydrogen networks, double gas flow into Germany and explore the possibility of a second high-voltage electricity interconnector for cross-border ...
21 Jun 2023, 13:27 S枚ren Amelang Policy Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coalition government has greenlighted a controversial reform of the country鈥檚 climate action law, which is set to effectively weaken ministerial responsibility for excessive emissions in ...
The Social Democratic Party (SPD) in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 North-Eastern region of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania said the government鈥檚 stance on climate protection was 鈥渨ay too hesitant鈥�, Dow Jones Newswire reports. 鈥淚f we as a party want to be taken seriously as far ...
20 Mar 2023, 12:12 Carolina Kyllmann Nuclear phase-out Funke Mediengruppe / Nikkei The lifespan of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 three remaining nuclear power plants will not be further extended, environment and nuclear safety minister Steffi Lemke told publishing house ...
German-Spanish wind turbine maker Siemens Gamesa reported an increase in orders of 29 percent in the final three months of 2017 compared to a year earlier, driven by strong demand from the United States, Denmark, Thailand and Egypt. News agency Reuters ...
23 Nov 2020, 13:44 Kerstine Appunn International Security dpa The government of the United States is increasing its pressure on people and companies associated with the construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline between Russia and Germany again, reported ...
30 Aug 2023, 12:07 Edgar Meza Freight Clean Energy Wire All new trucks being registered in Germany from 2035 could be battery-electric if a broad-scale charging network is available by then, according to the Institute for Applied Ecology (脰ko-Institut). ...
09 Jul 2019, 12:40 Sven Egenter Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Deutsche Bank Research / Clean Energy Wire A coalition between 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the Green Party following snap elections in case of a breakdown of the ...
23 Feb 2023, 13:35 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Clean Energy Wire Germany is unlikely to face gas shortages next winter, the Institute for Economic Research (DIW) has said in a report. Following a halt of Russian gas deliveries into Germany in September 2022, ...
29 Sep 2020, 13:00 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Kerstine Appunn Cars Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The transformation of the car industry will pose a challenge for German car manufacturer VW in the decades to come, brand chief Ralf Brandst盲tter ...
13 Mar 2023, 13:41 Carolina Kyllmann International Clean Energy Wire / Handelsblatt / dpa 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy and agriculture ministers seek to intensify strategic cooperation with Brazil and Colombia on trade and climate action, they said. Over a six-day ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 greenhouse gas reduction target of 80-95 percent by 2050 can't be reached with current plans, and is in itself inadequate to meet the goals set out in the Paris Climate Agreement, according to a new study by Energy Watch Group (EWG). 鈥淭he ...
20 Feb 2018
Germany will definitely miss its goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by 2020, which is a 鈥渂itter defeat for climate politicians,鈥� said Jochen Flasbarth, state secretary in the environment ministry, at the annual conference of the German ...
10 Sep 2021, 14:56 Germany could transform its economy to net zero emissions by 2045 at net zero costs, because switching to green technologies opens up new markets and opportunities for growth, consultancy McKinsey has found. In its report 鈥濶et-Zero ...
28 Aug 2020, 13:21 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire Germany has made decisive steps in regards to the climate challenge in past years, but efforts have to increase, Chancellor Angela Merkel told journalists ...
29 May 2015
29 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv AG Energiebilanzen 鈥淒emand for energy in heating increased- less coal and more power from renewables鈥� The use of hard coal and lignite fell in the first quarter of 2015 compared to last year, ...
03 Apr 2023, 13:35 S枚ren Amelang Politics Tagesspiegel / Clean Energy Wire Social Democrats (SPD) and Conservatives (CDU), who want to form a government in the city of Berlin following an election in February, have agreed on a coalition treaty. A week ...
14 Jun 2021, 13:07 Edgar Meza Electricity market Renewables WirtschaftsWoche German economic affairs and energy minister Peter Altmaier has said his ministry will submit new calculations for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 expected energy demand in the coming years due to ...
21 Sep 2020, 13:58 Expert BMF- Federal Ministry of Finance Bundesministerium der Finanzen Finance Government Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz ...
03 Mar 2020, 13:44 Rachel Waldholz Cars Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Handelsblatt Tesla could break ground on its new e-car factory outside Berlin as soon as this month, and the company could be eligible for 280 million euros in subsidies from the ...
05 May 2023, 13:29 Energy-intensive companies in Germany should receive billions of euros in state subsidies to lower their electricity costs if they promise to decarbonise and to stay within the country, economy and climate minister Robert Habeck said. ...
25 Jan 2016
25 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 鈥淪upport for wind power in windless locations鈥� Current proposals for the reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) from Economy and Energy Minister Sigmar Gabriel ...
09 Dec 2014
09 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv EurActiv 鈥淕lobal comparison reveals Germany's 'Energiewende dilemma'鈥� Germany scored average results (place 22 of 61) in the global climate protection index, compiled by the NGO ...
07 Dec 2018, 13:29 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate & CO2 Politics Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire German chancellor Angela ...
27 Aug 2018, 14:30 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 current boom in residential solar batteries has profound effects on the Energiewende (energy transition), says Kai-Philipp Kairies, director of technical consulting at RWTH Aachen University, one of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest technical ...
27 Apr 2023, 12:44 Julian Wettengel International Table.Media German chancellor Olaf Scholz will have an opportunity to improve his 鈥� and the country鈥檚 鈥� international credibility on climate when the government invites ministers from several dozen ...
27 Mar 2019, 11:14 Clean Energy Wire is stepping up its coverage of how business is being transformed by Germany's energy transition. To showcase the upheaval underway in the world鈥檚 fourth largest economy, we have launched a series on start-ups that ...
12 Apr 2019, 13:14 Julian Wettengel Coal Business & Jobs Reuters / Clean Energy Wire German Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 aim to wean Europe鈥檚 biggest economy off fossil fuels is a key issue in regional elections in eastern German coal mining states in ...
Germany has closed the Gundremmingen B nuclear reactor in Bavaria, leaving the country with seven reactors to be shut down by the scheduled nuclear exit at the end of 2022. Since starting operation in 1984, the reactor had produced about 鈥�330 billion ...
07 May 2015
07 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv The New York Times 鈥淕ermany, the Green Superpower鈥� With a generous feed-in tariff 鈥渢hat made it a no-brainer for Germans to install solar power (or wind) at home,鈥� Germany has made a 鈥渨orld-saving ...
30 Apr 2019, 13:12 Kerstine Appunn Transport Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 federal council of state governments (Bundesrat), the second legislative chamber, today debates the use of e-scooters on pavements and cycle lanes. While federal transport minister ...
Minimum energy performance standards for rental buildings can help increase the rate of deep renovations, and they can be an important instrument for combating energy poverty, according to a paper by the Buildings Performance Institute Europe (BPIE) and ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 biggest power consumer, Deutsche Bahn (DB), has set itself new climate protection targets ahead of the COP23 UN climate conference in Bonn next month, Henrik Mortsiefer reports聽for the Tagesspiegel. The company 鈥� including its global logistics ...
24 May 2023, 13:26 S枚ren Amelang Heating Policy Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire The intensifying quarrel within the German government coalition is increasingly likely to delay a law designed to pave the way towards climate-friendly heating. ...
20 Jun 2023, 13:20 Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft K枚ln Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire An accelerating trend towards electric mobility puts German carmakers鈥� success ...
15 Dec 2016, 00:00 An expert commission tasked with monitoring the progress of the German energy transition warned the country will probably miss its 2020 emission targets and other crucial Energiewende goals, threatening the entire project鈥檚 credibility. ...
10 Mar 2020, 13:46 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity market Wind Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung A ...
03 Apr 2019, 12:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire The German government says the jury is still out on the question whether the operators of coal plants are eligible for compensation payments once their facilities are taken off ...
13 Sep 2019, 13:24 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections ...
Scientists have discussed the possibility of geo-engineering to curb the warming of the earth's atmosphere, Christoph Schrader writes on Spiegel Online. At a conference in Berlin, researchers debated measures such as reforestation, extracting CO 2 ...
05 Jul 2019, 14:05 Sven Egenter Freight Clean Energy Wire The companies that depend on the Rhine River 鈥� 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most important shipping artery for heavy goods and raw materials 鈥� have developed an action plan with the transport ministry, following last ...
Daimler started building a new 500 million euro battery factory in the East German town of Kamenz. The site is the carmaker's second factory for lithium batteries and should be operational by the middle of 2018, quadrupling production, according to a ...
15 Aug 2023, 14:02 Expert Deutsche Post Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Freight Cost & Prices Die Welt / Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 postal service Deutsche Post says it will invest less than planned in emissions reduction and climate action ...
Europe could cover more than 37 percent of its electricity demand with wind power turbines by the end of the next decade, an analysis by Wind Europe says. The industry association has modelled three different scenarios for wind power investment levels and ...
The Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) has published an extensive study on 鈥渢enant power鈥�. The study aims to provide a definition of the term, as well as legal background, and an overview of possible forms of organisation, the ...
21 Sep 2021, 10:43 Regional votes in two German states on 26 September are being overshadowed by the federal election on the same day. But the outcome in German capital Berlin and in the north-eastern state Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania will affect how ...
After a first procedural session in June, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit commission meets today to 鈥渓ay the groundwork for joint understanding of the 24 experts and four heads鈥�, writes Andreas Mihm in an article in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The commission 鈥� ...
01 Nov 2021, 12:45 Edgar Meza Elections & Politics Government Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung In the runup to the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, eight leading environmental organisations have called on 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 next government ...
25 Mar 2015, 00:00 The protests against government proposals for a carbon emissions levy for older power plants are gaining momentum in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal mining regions. Unions warn the plans put tens of thousands of jobs at risk because they will make ...
10 Sep 2015
10 Sep 2015, 00:00 Sven Egenter Clean Energy Wire 91tv FAZ/Handelsblatt "Werner M眉ller wants to save RWE" RWE鈥檚 municipal shareholders plan to put former German economy minister聽 Werner M眉ller 聽in charge of the stricken utility鈥檚 supervisory ...
20 Feb 2020, 14:00 Rachel Waldholz Cars Elections & Politics Handelsblatt / Clean Energy Wire Representatives from the German Green Party and major German environmental organizations have called for work to continue at Tesla鈥檚 proposed e-car factory ...
08 Sep 2015
08 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Frankfurter Rundschau Nuclear decommissioning: Environmental activists worried about security An alliance of 76 environmental groups is demanding stricter security standards and more public ...
25 Aug 2020, 13:29 Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics taz/ S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Several members of Fridays for Future (FfF) Germany have declared their intention to run for federal parliament, exposing divisions within the non-partisan climate ...
07 Dec 2017, 00:00 A coal exit is inevitable to reach 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 climate targets, but the shift must not come at the expense of workers, according to SPD head Martin Schulz. In an address to a party convention in which delegates voted for holding coalition ...
The federal economy ministry plans to introduce a common transmission grid fee across Germany, writes Andreas Mihm in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Grid fees currently differ depending on the region and are higher where the development of renewables ...
20 Aug 2019, 13:55 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Transport Clean Energy Wire / AP German airline Lufthansa is launching a platform that allows customers to purchase CO鈧�-neutral synthetic plane fuel to compensate for the emissions caused by their ...
03 Dec 2014
03 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) / NPE 鈥淓xtraordinary write-downs for electric cars demanded鈥� The National Platform for Electromobility (NPE) suggested in a progress report that achieving scale in the ...
German utility Uniper has been legally authorised to finish construction of a hard coal plant that a court stopped in 2009, the company said in press release. Authorities in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia issued the permission after resolving ...
03 Feb 2015
03 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淏avaria does not need two grid extensions鈥� The southern German state of Bavaria, one of the country鈥檚 industrial powerhouses, has completed a three-month 鈥�Energy Dialogue鈥� ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 carmakers have retrofitted the software of about 2.5 million out of a total of 5.3 million diesel cars eligible for a retrofitting to lower their emissions, Handelsblatt reports. The country鈥檚 largest carmaker, Volkswagen, has carried out over ...
09 Aug 2023, 13:53 S枚ren Amelang Wind Policy Tagesspiegel Background 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 wind industry has accused the operator of the country鈥檚 motorways of sabotaging the roll-out of wind turbines, which are key to reaching climate targets. The government-owned ...
28 Apr 2023, 13:17 S枚ren Amelang Industry Clean Energy Wire Existing estimates on how much green hydrogen 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 chemical industry will need to decarbonise vary widely, according to a meta-analysis by the country鈥檚 science academy acatech and DECHEMA, ...
09 May 2023, 12:53 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Transport Clean Energy Wire The German government must address structural obstacles to faster and more comprehensively reduce emissions across the country鈥檚 economy in order to achieve international ...
20 Mar 2019, 13:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Coal Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The western German federal state of Saarland has claimed greater financial support from the federal government for cushioning the effects of the state鈥檚 phase ...
14 Aug 2019, 11:55 Expert adelphi Climate & CO2 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire There is no general recipe for a successful carbon pricing scheme, but its introduction should be accompanied by open and targeted ...
25 Nov 2014
25 Nov 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Dow Jones Newswires "Gabriel's coal proposal: utilities keep calm" German utilities are prepared to shut down some power stations, reports Dow Jones Newswires. They agreed to Economy ...
The importation of more liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the United States would make the EU less dependent on Russia for energy, but American LNG is associated with significant environmental damage due to its extraction method, economist Claudia Kemfert ...
14 Apr 2023, 13:35 Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Clean Energy Wire The expansion of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 electricity transmission grid is starting to make progress after the government introduced steps to ...
10 Feb 2023, 12:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity market Gas Politics Clean Energy Wire The transformation of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy system away from fossil fuels must quickly be reinforced by sufficient 鈥渕olecule-based鈥� power plant capacity that can back up the ...
06 Dec 2021, 13:34 Jessica Bateman Coal Der Tagesspiegel Leaders from the east German coal-mining region of Lusatia have criticised the incoming coalition government鈥檚 plan to phase out the fossil fuel by 2030 instead of 2038, newspaper Der Tagesspiegel ...
07 Jan 2015
07 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Dow Jones Newswires 鈥淓-Mobility project: Municipal utilities are looking for a common business model鈥� A new federal research project called 鈥渆connect Germany鈥� aims to demonstrate the opportunities ...
30 Jan 2023, 12:48 Carolina Kyllmann International Clean Energy Wire German chancellor Olaf Scholz wants promote energy cooperation and secure critical raw materials for the energy transition from South America. The politician is visiting Argentina, Chile ...
28 Mar 2022, 12:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Saarbr眉cker Zeitung In the first major election in Germany since the federal election last year, voters in the state of Saarland handed the Social Democrats (SPD) a sweeping victory. Official ...
29 Mar 2019, 13:53 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Solar Clean Energy Wire The German solar power industry wants the government to loosen restrictions and free up land to expand solar capacity, after far more bidders submitted offers in the first 2019 solar ...
05 Jan 2015
05 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Reuters 鈥淕abriel pushes Bayern to decide on power network鈥� Bavaria risks a weakening of its economy and higher electricity prices unless it agrees to the two planned power lines transporting wind ...
02 Feb 2023, 13:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ambitious goal of reaching net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2045 can only be achieved through a comprehensive and multi-layered approach that includes ...
The prospect of an improving performance has given the shares of E.ON鈥檚 conventional energy spin-off Uniper a boost, the Reuters news agency reports. Uniper expects an adjusted 鈥榚arnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization鈥� of 1.9 ...
28 Sep 2020, 13:44 Julian Wettengel Cars Handelsblatt A study by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) says that there is little difference in the amount of personnel and work involved in building an electric car and a vehicle with a combustion engine, reports ...
Large utilities operating nuclear power plants are trying to exchange as few fuel rods as possible this year to circumvent the fuel rod tax that runs out at the end of 2016, writes Michael Bauchm眉ller in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. 鈥淭o save money, the energy ...
An聽 announcement by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest carmakers that they will substantially increase the share of electric vehicles in their product portfolios has turned the tide in the market for e-car charging stations, Axel H枚pner writes for Handelsblatt. Large ...
22 Jul 2019, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind Society Clean Energy Wire Construction of more than 2,000 onshore wind turbines in Germany-- with a combined capacity of nearly 10 gigawatts (GW)-- is on hold due to bureaucratic hurdles and delays in ...
13 May 2019, 14:08 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Tagesspiegel Background Johannes Teyssen, CEO of German energy company E.ON, has called for the introduction of a price on CO鈧� emissions in all economic sectors in ...
10 Aug 2023, 13:05 S枚ren Amelang Cost & Prices Utilities Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 competition watchdog has warned power company RWE not to abuse its dominant position in the country鈥檚 electricity market. "RWE is indispensable for meeting the ...
Under a new agreement, Russia's Gazprom will have greater access to the German OPAL connection pipeline in eastern Germany, removing a key hurdle to Gazprom鈥檚 plan to double Nord Stream capacity in Nord Stream 2, writes EurActiv. 鈥淭he latest ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 years-long investment in, and deployment of, renewable sources of energy have brought down the cost of solar and wind power around the world, Aaron Larson writes in POWER. Other countries seeking to similarly transition to a carbon-free energy ...
Bavaria's government wants to keep the nuclear plant Isar 2 running as long as possible, arguing that lagging grid development could leave the state short of power without it, Michael Bauchm眉ller writes for S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. The maximum amount of ...
15 Jul 2019, 13:19 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 International Bild The collapse of the climate system is resulting in refugees that Europe 鈥渙f course鈥� has to take in, German Sea-Watch captain Carola Rackete said in an interview with BILD. Rackete was ...
29 Aug 2023, 13:36 Milou Dirkx Finance Clean Energy Wire / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Germany reached its target of raising six billion euros from its state budget for international climate finance three years ahead of time, said the development ministry (BMZ). ...
16 Aug 2023, 13:42 Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Gas Clean Energy Wire The plans for a new liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on the German island of R眉gen in the Baltic Sea face more opposition by local interest groups who fear that the large ...
19 Feb 2020, 14:23 Rachel Waldholz Cars Handelsblatt Just a few years after being hit with massive fines for its role in the emissions cheating scandal, Volkswagen is hoping to re-brand as the climate-friendly alternative in the American market, Astrid ...
16 Dec 2016, 00:00 2017 will be a year filled with a multitude of seminal events for Germany's energy and climate policy. Apart from presiding over the next G20 summit, Germany will be the venue for the UN's COP23 and see legal reforms of ...
06 Mar 2019, 11:26 S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate & CO2 Transport Clean Energy Wire Missing its聽 2030 climate targets for the transport sector could cost Germany billions of euros,聽 according to a report by the NewClimate Institute ...
innogy's CEO Peter Terium expects the renewables spin-off to pay a 鈥済enerous dividend鈥� to its parent company RWE this year, news agency Reuters reports. "Generous means dividend multiplied by the number of shares. RWE has a lot of shares so what ...
12 May 2023, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind Clean Energy Wire / Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung Germany installed 128 new wind turbines with a total capacity of 0.6 gigawatts (GW) between January and April 2023, an increase in the growth rate of 46 ...
12 May 2023, 13:48 Expert BDH- Federation of German Heating Industry Industry Efficiency Heating Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Heating Clean Energy Wire New oil and gas heating systems are seeing a sales boom in Germany ahead of a planned law that could ban the ...
06 Apr 2023, 12:09 Julian Wettengel Industry Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Handelsblatt / Clean Energy Wire Four leading German economic institutes have warned against industry subsidies like cushioning high power prices or efforts to re-establish ...
12 Jul 2019, 13:16 Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Twelve EU member states have already set a price on CO2 and all opted for a tax solution as Germany continues discussions on the ...
聽The fact that a major figure from Germany's car industry, Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche, was invited to the Green Party convention shows that the Greens are a force to be reckoned with, writes Holger M枚hle in a commentary in the General-Anzeiger. The ...
Norway is aiming to eliminate sales of new internal combustion engine vehicles by 2025 and allow only electric vehicles, but such a model would be harmful to the environment in Germany, Daniel Delhaes writes in Handelsblatt. While Norway can generate most ...
07 Apr 2020, 13:18 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Clean Energy Wire The slump in wind power expansion in Germany has prevented a new record for investments in the technology in Europe, industry association WindEurope says in an analysis of 2019 financing trends ...
02 Mar 2015
02 Mar 2015, 00:00 Clean Energy Wire 91tv Spiegel Online 鈥淰attenfall connects coal-fired power plant Moorburg to the grid鈥� After trial runs lasting over a year, the controversial coal-fired Moorburg聽power plant in Hamburg has begun commercial operation, ...
01 Feb 2019, 12:31 S枚ren Amelang Grid Tagesspiegel 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 grid operators recommend building 1,600 kilometres of additional transmission lines and upgrading a further 2,900 kilometres in response to the country鈥檚 renewable roll-out and developments in ...
17 Dec 2014, 00:00 The latest figures on 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy consumption and electricity generation for 2014 suggest that the country鈥檚 recent rise in greenhouse gas emissions could be coming to an end. Expert AGEB- AG Energiebilanzen e.V. Climate & CO2 ...
The German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW) says the ruling by a German court blocking a significant decrease in grid operators' guaranteed returns will boost necessary infrastructure investments. 鈥淭he聽 rate determined by the Federal ...
04 Mar 2016, 00:00 Hydrogen Die Welt 鈥淣orth Rhine-Westphalia cities agree to forego RWE dividend鈥� Despite their own financial difficulties, cities in North Rhine-Westphalia that own stakes in utility RWE have accepted that there will be no dividend this ...
16 Jun 2015
16 Jun 2015, 00:00 Clean Energy Wire 91tv Reuters 鈥淢erkel says Germany weighing further support for electric cars鈥� Chancellor Angela Merkel said further public support is needed to achieve the government鈥檚 aim of bringing 1 million electric cars on to ...
The right-wing party Alternative for Germany (AfD) is becoming an outlet for the anger of former lignite workers that lost their jobs when East German power plants and open-pit mines were shut down after German reunification in 1990, writes Stefan Locke ...
27 Feb 2018, 00:00 German cities may ban diesel cars from polluted areas following a landmark court ruling. In a major blow to German carmakers still heavily relying on diesel car sales, and a victory for environmentalists, one of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 top courts ...
A research group, funded by German carmakers to design a study to show that modern diesel cars are clean, conducted an experiment in the US which exposed monkeys to diesel fumes- a 鈥渘ew dimension in the global emissions scandal鈥�, writes the New York Times ...
16 Jan 2015
16 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Business Green "Germany breezes past 1GW offshore wind milestone" Germany's renewables industry is celebrating another milestone this week, as an industry-backed report confirmed ...
14 Aug 2020, 15:45 Germany will likely reach its original target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by the end of this year, compared to 1990, estimates by researchers from the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate ...
02 Dec 2015
02 Dec 2015, 00:00 Clean Energy Wire 91tv S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淟ate, perhaps too late鈥� RWE鈥檚 plans are radical and effectively split 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 second largest utility in two, writes Caspar Busse in a commentary for S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. 鈥淭he decision is ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 federal government plans to present a joint list of demands to German carmakers at the national diesel summit on 2 August, a spokesperson for the environment ministry (BMUB) told journalists in Berlin on Monday. The inviting transport and ...
14 Jun 2019, 13:18 Expert DIE- German Development Institute Deutsches Institut f眉r Entwicklungspolitik Policy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International G20 & G7 German Development Institute Support for multilateral commitments, especially those ...
Germany and China reiterated their calls on the US administration to commit to international climate protection efforts and stay in the Paris Agreement at a climate conference in Berlin. Germany is currently trying 鈥渙n all levels鈥� to persuade the US ...
German car manufacturer Volkswagen said it plans to buy battery cells and related technology worth around 20 billion euros for electric-vehicle projects in Europe and China, news agency Reuters reports. A supplier decision for North America will be taken ...
28 Jul 2021, 12:16 Julian Wettengel Cars Business Insider Legal action brought by environmental NGOs continues to be a hurdle for Tesla鈥檚 鈥淕igafactory鈥� near the German capital Berlin, reports Business Insider. The Brandenburg Nature and Biodiversity ...
25 May 2023, 14:01 S枚ren Amelang Grid Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire / dpa The German government has agreed rules to build an initial 鈥渃ore鈥� hydrogen network that is set to enter operation by 2032. "Our goal is the rapid ramp-up of the hydrogen market, ...
11 Jan 2016
11 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Agora Energiewende 鈥淗ow the exit from coal power generation by 2040 can be managed鈥� Germany can exit coal by 2040 without significant effects on power prices or supply security, and the government ...
04 Apr 2019, 14:09 S枚ren Amelang Climate & CO2 Gas Hydrogen Technology Clean Energy Wire German steelmaker Salzgitter has expressed confidence that policymakers will provide the support necessary to realise a large-scale hydrogen project to ...
Germany hosts about 120 generating units capable of a 鈥渂lack start鈥�, meaning they will be available for repowering the grid from scratch in the event of a, so far unprecedented, major blackout, Anna Ringle writes in Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten. ...
12 Sep 2019, 14:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Clean Energy Wire The European Automobile Manufacturers鈥� Association (ACEA) has called on European leaders to come up with a coherent plan to facilitate the spread of electric mobility on the continent. At the IAA ...
Germany and other EU member states should strengthen聽 cooperation on climate protection, in light of the upcoming US administration's likely reversal of climate legislation, writes Susanne Dr枚ge in an commentary for the German Institute for ...
20 Jan 2023, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Wind Clean Energy Wire A new area development plan for the expansion of offshore wind energy is a key step in helping Germany come closer to its target of installing at least 30 gigawatts (GW) by 2030, the economy and ...
20 Dec 2016, 00:00 2017 will be a year filled with a multitude of seminal events for Germany's energy and climate policy. Apart from presiding over the next G20 summit, Germany will be the venue for the UN's COP23 and see legal reforms of ...
The new governing coalition of conservative CDU and economic liberal FDP in Germany's most populous federal state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) seems intent on curbing wind power expansion but is hit by resistance from the job-creating industry, Guido ...
22 May 2019, 13:18 Julian Wettengel Gas Renewables Hydrogen Technology French manufacturer Alstom plans to deliver 27 hydrogen fuel cell trains to subsidiary fahma of regional public transport provider RMV in the central German state of Hesse by 2022, ...
US company General Electric (GE) will ramp up its investment in wind power in Germany in a bid to revive its ailing business, Axel H枚pner and Kathrin Witsch write in the Handelsblatt. The veteran US manufacturer, which has recently got booted from the Dow ...
German carmakers' plan to set up a nationwide fast charging network for electric cars is 鈥渘o reason to cheer鈥�, Peter Fahrenholz writes in a commentary for S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. 鈥淚nvesting in transportation infrastructure is a public duty,鈥� Fahrenholz ...
There is mounting evidence that the German government will oppose stricter car fleet emission limits at EU level in exchange for carmakers鈥� consent to cover the hardware retrofitting costs in certain types of diesel vehicles, reports the Frankfurter ...
28 Jun 2018, 16:17 The German government鈥檚 Energiewende advisors say the country must put much greater emphasis on the project鈥檚 European dimension to achieve the shift to renewables and the necessary emissions reduction during the next decade. The group ...
The European Commission has opened infringement procedures against several EU member states, including Germany, for not applying their national provisions on penalties despite VW鈥檚 use of illegal defeat device software. 鈥淎dditionally, the Commission takes ...
13 Jun 2018, 00:00 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 policymakers have not kept pace with the energy industry鈥檚 rapid transformation caused by the Energiewende, and must catch up urgently, according to the utility association BDEW. The utilities also say that Germany needs a ...
The German energy system would become more complex, unfair and expensive if the government were to introduce support models for tenant electricity, as costs avoided by tenants would have to be paid by other consumers, writes Andreas Mihm in an opinion ...
27 Jul 2023, 13:41 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Extreme rainfall in Germany between 2002 and 2021 has generated damages on residential buildings worth over 12.6 billion euros, figures by insurer association GDV show. ...
25 Mar 2021, 13:58 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Germany must prepare different ...
14 Jun 2019, 13:11 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 ...
23 Mar 2021, 13:08 Expert IASS- Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies Think tank on sustainable development Climate & CO2 Policy Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 International Clean Energy Wire The COVID-19 crisis is widening the gap between ...
The planned extension of the Nord Stream gas pipeline that links Germany with Russia via the Baltic Sea has come under fierce criticism from environmental and conservation organisations, the dpa news agency reports. Doubling the number of pipelines would ...
19 Nov 2019, 13:40 Julian Wettengel Finance S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Central banks should not actively engage in climate policy as they lack both the expertise and the mandate to decide which investments make sense from a climate protection point of view, ...
14 Mar 2023, 13:12 Carolina Kyllmann Digitalisation Policy Clean Energy Wire / Tagesspiegel Background There is still a long way to go to increase digitalisation and make planning procedures faster and more efficient, for example for site planning for ...
16 Jan 2017
A concrete year for a German coal exit can't be specified, because of the many factors involved, according to economy minister Sigmar Gabriel, writes the Rheinische Post. 鈥淚 don鈥檛 think much of this chase for phase-out dates,鈥� which could easily lead ...
27 Mar 2023, 14:01 Julian Wettengel Cars EU Handelsblatt / Clean Energy Wire The deal between Germany and the European Commission to allow new combustion engine cars after 2035 鈥� if they run exclusively on e-fuels 鈥� could upset politicians鈥� climate policy ...
US President Donald Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Agreement does not mean that the country鈥檚 climate policy was already 鈥渇ully outlined鈥�, a German government official told reporters at a press briefing in Berlin, when asked about the upcoming G20 ...
31 Jul 2023, 13:33 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation Society Clean Energy Wire German health minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) aims to halve the number of excess deaths due to heat this year compared to 2022 with a nationwide heat protection plan. Lauterbach, who ...
07 May 2019, 12:33 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Julian Wettengel Transport Freight Clean ...
14 Nov 2019, 13:33 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire Outdoor air pollution contributed to over 44,800 premature deaths in Germany in 2016, more than 8,000 of which were linked to coal, says a policy briefing on Germany based on the Lancet ...
Germany's ambitious greenhouse gas reduction plans are facing a major obstacle: an apparent addiction to coal, reports Irene Banos Ruiz for Deutsche Welle. Mining company RWE is planning the expansion of some of Europe's biggest coal mines, ...
09 May 2023, 13:10 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Security Clean Energy Wire German energy policy in the Baltic Sea region has been a major failure that will now have to be corrected through a rigorous pivot towards offshore wind power, foreign minister Annalena ...
The European Commission has approved under EU state aid rules 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 strategic capacity reserve, which is meant to ensure the security of power supply in case of emergencies, the Commission said in a press release. 鈥淐apacity mechanisms can help to ...
10 Dec 2018, 09:03 Germany is under scrutiny at the UN climate summit COP24 in Poland: the country will fail its 2020 climate target and only the next year will show if a push to phase-out coal-fired power production will result in an end date for the CO2 ...
27 Apr 2016, 00:00 A government appointed commission has unanimously suggested that Germany's four large utilities should pay a large share of their provisions made for storing nuclear waste into a state administered fund. While the idea of a fund is ...
22 Apr 2021, 10:00 Expert E3G Third Generation Environmentalism Non-profit organisation for policy transformation Climate & CO2 Finance Policy Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Expert WWF Germany World Wide Fund For Nature Climate & CO2 Fossil ...
09 Jul 2019, 12:45 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics International tageszeitung (taz) / Clean Energy Wire The German members of the Green group in the European Parliament (EP) said they would only support German defence minister Ursula von der ...
12 Nov 2021, 17:20 With only hours officially left to conclude talks in Glasgow, the details of how future carbon markets can help to increase climate mitigation ambition are being formed at the hands of government ministers while NGOs warn that current ...
For the upcoming coalition talks in Germany's northernmost state Schleswig-Holstein, policy positions by the Green Party and the Free Democrats (FDP) differ most when it comes to the power sector, said regional FPD leader Wolfgang Kubicki in a joint ...
19 Feb 2019, 13:19 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union ...
01 Jul 2015
01 Jul 2015, 00:00 Clean Energy Wire 91tv S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淒irty deal鈥� At a high-level meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel tonight, the German government looks set to abandon plans for an additional levy on old coal-fired plants and instead adopt ...
10 Mar 2021, 13:44 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 International Clean Energy Wire Picking up on the United Nations鈥� call for a 鈥渄ecade of action鈥� to implement the 2030 ...
Volkswagen's competitors see聽its decision to build a battery cell factory for serial production in Germany as a concession to its workers鈥� council, rather than an economically promising endeavour, writes Philipp Vetter for Die Welt. 鈥淰W is forced by ...
